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The glide of moon along my fenders flowingIs like a motion milking upon light,So rapt and pallid does it lap and drawFrom silver sources crescent with the night.The earth is pouring off her liquid milesWhose waterless water is the way I feelCoursing on the desert, every senseCollected and yet fluid at the wheel,While cylinder and floating cylinderSo perfectly receive the plunge of powerThat night, and rumors of capricious night,Time’s own, the frictionless anointed hourWait on the motor mystical that drives,Lean to the fury lovely and reposeThat are the piston’s plunder and the sumOf tranquil labor that an engine knows.

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At least and still at lingering last we canConsole ourselves because this earth is ours,Though we could never hurl the hurricane,Nor weld a hill, nor soft unlock the showers,Nor rivet the diamond under the abyss,Nor add the desert up, nor crumble the frostOver the flower’s face. Remembering thisThe warm security of pride is lost,For we are dull misma…

The eyeless labourer in the night,the selfless, shapeless seed I hold,builds for its resurrection day --silent and swift and deep from sightforesees the unimagined light.

This is no child with a child's face;this has no name to name it by:yet you and I have known it well.This is our hunter and our chase,the third who lay in our embrace.

This is the strength that your arm knows,the arc of flesh that is my breast,the precise crystals of our eyes.This is the blood's wild tree that growsthe intricate and folded rose.

This is the maker and the made;this is the question and reply;the blind head butting at the dark,the blaze of light upon the blade.Oh hold me, for I am afraid.Dearest Marie, this is for you. I hope you read it well. I wish you well.

In times of change, learners inherit the earth, while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.--Eric HofferWhen I say, kumusta?, I do not mean it as a greeting, acknowledging your presence, informing you of mine.

When I say, kumusta?, I stop and wait for an answer. I have decided to make a fragment of your life my concern. I will not ask if I do not care, even if I know you.

Thus trust is never about another. Trust is always a trust in your self, that no matter how the world will respond to your behavior, you know in your gut that you are prepared to regard it.

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In the last Monday of June 2005, a pretentious machowoman on television said, I am sorry, it was a lapse in judgment, in such a dead voice.

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It is okay to pretend to have read the newspapers when you were still in high school, but the truth is it is just rightful not to have a care about the world at all when you're just 16.

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And then you start to care. And then you know that all of it--the wardrobe, the setting--it's all a ploy, the apology--it's directed, still a pretend, an artifice.

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That is when it is finally confirmed: there was never such a thing as natural beauty, but an effect of the natural, which is beautiful. That hard-work and diligence are not formulas for achieving your desires.

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But it's only half of what you know.

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Robert H. March: "It is possible to understand nature in terms of approximation to an ideal state even if that state cannot possibly exist in nature."

I am not one to believe the best things are for free. But I'd take what's free any time.

It was in my senior year in high school when cellular phones became so fashionably necessary, and in the blink of an eye, the cell phone had been as ordinary as a pen and a hanky. Everyone had them. I didn't have one then. Until my sophomore year in college. I had my first authentic gimik. I hung out with new-found friends at the Remedios Circle in Malate till 4 AM. Going home, I expected a full hour or two of reprimand from my parents, but I received the silent treatment instead. The next night, I became the new owner of a Nokia 3210.

I'm not crazy about cell phones. Nokia features such as games are wasted on me. My average text messages sent per day is roughly 1. I have never—ever!—consumed my P300 load in two months. I hardly make calls. If I need to call someone, I look for the nearest pay phone. For 5 years, my Nokia 3210 has stayed with me—till its backlight'…